UNEARTHING ENTANGLEMENTS: HUMAN/MACHINE COLLABORATION IN THE WRITING CLASSROOM

<p>This dissertation focuses on the dynamics between teachers and machines at the intersections of design, teaching labor, and pedagogy when automation is deployed in writing classrooms. The sites of analysis are Eli Review and Turnitin, two technologies that represent different design approaches that center around “informating” or “automating” data about student work. The exigence for this project emerges out of the labor crisis currently enveloping higher education. Traditionally, in times of labor crises, automation and machines are used to replace scarce or imperfect human labor. However, balanced and purposeful design of automated technology has the potential to enhance humans’ labor and protect workers. Using holistic and provisional coding, combined with object interviews, this dissertation analyzes data collected from a national survey distributed to composition instructors and nine interviews about their personal experiences with Eli Review and Turnitin. The data and findings from these methods suggests beneficial relationships between humans and machines are possible in the writing classroom through careful design, integration, and management of educational and learning technologies.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Writing Program

Year

2019

Author dc:creator

• Canzonetta, Jordan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Krista Kennedy

• composition
• educational technology
• labor
• rhetoric and technology
• writing studies
• writing technology
• Arts and Humanities

Repository record dc:identifier

https://surface.syr.edu/etd/1038

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:surface.syr.edu:etd-2039